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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. Public companies are measured by their 90 day success on the stock market. This is something I wholeheartedly agree with—but it’s nothing new as a concept. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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People Do Business With You…But Why?

Women on Business

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it?

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

Simon McGill/Getty Images. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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THE GAUNTLET HAS BEEN THROWN DOWN

Women in the LEAD

  Business, professionals, academics, innovators, entrepreneurs, governments and public bodies alike have to care and have to take up these challenges practically. We need to find different models for social and economic progress or face repercussions and continued cyclical economic time bombs. 

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. As of 2010, only 2.4%

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Indian Tales of Inclusive Business Models

Harvard Business Review

We just spent the last few weeks criss-crossing India to discover how private sector companies are striving to support India's quest for "inclusive growth.". Indian companies have traditionally contributed to inclusive growth primarily through philanthropic activities or CSR (corporate social responsibility) projects.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc., In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau.